The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1887-10-15

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instruments f1cfc wn1 ooxplpo.
HE instant that TIE m11nfciAns began
whats that. what's thats Why. IT.
the regiments cominR home. That's
the tune. yes, that's tho tune. Thank
God. 4 have got home once moreI"
"Ijonny Scotland and Bonny DOOM
| were the last words that he uttered ~
lac passed up to The highlands OF the
better country. And there are here
! today hundreds homesick for heaven,
some because you have 80 many be-
/ reavements, some because you have so
many. temptations, some because you
have so many ailments; homesIck.
( very homesick. for the fatherland Of
heaven, and the music that you want
10 hear now is the song of free grace,
and the music YOU want to hear when
YOU die is free grace. and forever be-
fore the throne Of God you will sing
of the "grace Of our Lord Jesus
Christ, who, though He was rich, for
your sakes became poor"
Yes. yes. for your sakes It was
rot on pleasure excursion that He
came. for IL was all pain. IL was not
an astronomical exploration, for He
knew this world as well before He was
compelled TO come, for He volunteer
ed. II was not because il WAS easy,
for Hc knew IL would be thorn, and
spike. aud hunger. and thirst, and w.
alteration OF angry mobs. For your
sakes, Wipe away your tears To
forgive your wrong doing. TO com
panionship your loneliness, 10 sooth
your sorrows, to sit with you by the
new made grave. to bind up your
wounds in the ugly battle with the
world. and bring you home az last,
inding up the mlsts that fall on your
dying vision with the sunlight OF a
glorious morn. For your sakes! No,
will change that. Paul viii not care,
and Christ will not care il ! change Ii,
for must get into the blessedness Of
the text myself, and SO ! say: For
onr sakesr' For we all have oui
temptations. and bereayements. and
conflicts For our sakes We who
deserve Co our sins 20 expatriated into
4 world rs much poorer than this than
this earth WAS poorer than Heaven.
For our sakesl
But what fruitful coming down
10 take us gloriously up. When
Artaxerxes was hunting, Tirebazus,
who was attending him, showed the
King rent in his garment. The King
said. How shall ! mend liz" -By
l'giying il TO me, said Tirebazus. Then
the King gave him the robe, but com
manded him never 10 wear II. as II
would be inappropriate. See the start
ling and comforting fact, while our
Prince throws off the habit. He not
only allows rs To wear IL, but com
mands us 20 wear ii, and IL will be-
come ms well, and for the poyerties OF
Our spiritual state we may put on the
splendors Of heavenly regalement,
I For our sakes. d, the personality of
this religIonl Not an abstraction, not
AN arch under which we walk TO be-
hold elaborate masonry. nor an ice
castle like that which Empress Eliza
beth, of Russia. over a hundred years
ago, ordered constructed, winter with
/ it's trowel of crystal cementing the
huge blocks that had been qnarred
/ from the frozen rivers of the north;
but "A fathers house with "A wide
hearth cracking o hearty Welcome. A
religion of warmth and inspiration.
and light, and cheer, something We
can take into our hearts, and homes,
and business, recreation. aud Joys, and
sorrows. Not an uninanageable gift
! like the galley presented 10 Ptolemy,
which required 1000 men to row, and
! It's draught of water was SO great that
it could not not come near the shore,
I but something you can run up any
stream of annoyance, however shallow.
! Enrichment now, enrichment forever
Right about face. for you are going
in che wrong direction. While YOU
are in a favorable mood for IL, enter
into life. Here and just now decide
everything that makes for peace and
heaven. Agassiz says thai he has
stood at one place In the Alps where
he could throw a chip into the water
In one direction. and IL would roll on
into the German ocean, or HI could
throw chip into the water In another
! direction, and IL would reach the Black
sea by the Danube, or he could throw
a chip Ia another direction. and II
4 would enter the Mediterranean by the
Rhone How far apart the Mcdlfer.
ranean. and the Black sea. and the
German Oceanl standing to-day on
this Alps of Gospel privilege, you car
project your soul into right currents
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